"Batter Progress" In Indo-China War
WASHINGTON, Mon. (A.A.P.) : The war against the Vietminh Communist forces in In-do-China was progressing more satisfactorily than six months ago, the Deputy Secretary for…
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The wars & local soldiers, 1952
614 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 27 of 31
Anzac Day 'Main Date' For National Remembrance
The chairman of the R.S.L. District Council (Mr. B. L. Smith) claimed today that Nov. 11 had ceased to exist as Remembrance Day. It had now become customary to hold the…
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SEOUL, Nov. 11. A.A.P.—Fifty-five thousand more South Korean troops are ready for action. They should enable the Republic of…
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CANBERRA, Tuesday. — The Minister for the Navy (Mr. McMahon) said to-night that the Tribal class destroyer…
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A WREATH a returned soldier prisoner at Maitland Gaol made from Moreton Bay fig…
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Hamilton R.S.L. Management Committee last night decided to refer to the general meeting a…
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LONDON, Nov. 12. A.A.P. —The Secretary for War (Mr. Head) told the House of Commons yesterday that a British…
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The causes of the first and second world wars existed in the world to-day, the Dean of Newcastle (Very Rev. W…
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TOKIO, Thurs. (A.A.P.). — Japan's Foreign Office said yesterday that it had asked 10 Allied nations of…
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TOKIO, Thurs. (A.A.P.): A grave threat to Allied prisoners in a Peking (Red China) broadcast…
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NEW YORK, Nov. 12.—Hope for an early settlement of the Korean war has receded. In Korea, Allied commanders are reported to despair of a negotiated peace and feel that the only course…
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SYDNEY.—A test case in which 500 wool dealers through the Commonwealth had claimed £3-million as…
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The Commonwealth Government is to call a conference with New South Wales, Victorian and Queensland Government representatives on war service land settlement. The Minister for the…
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NEW YORK, Nov. 14—The Korean war was part of the third world war, and no responsible Republican had any plan for ending it, said Senator Syles Bridges, in a magazine article…
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On a Monday in July, 1818, New South Wales Governor Lachlan Macquarie saw Rev. Mr. Cowper marry 30 couples and baptise "thirty young Australians" in the first ceremony of its kind in Newcastle…
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TORONTO, Nov. 16. A.A.P.—Police arrested an 18-year-old youth last night as the sniper who shot and wounded…
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BONN, Mon. (A.A.P.): Flags flew at half-mast throughout West Germany yesterday as the country, for the first time since 1945, remembered her five million fighting…
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TUNIS, Mon. (A.A.P.).—Terrorists ambushed a French army convoy near Gabes, Southern Tunisia…
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NEW YORK, Nov. 17. A.A.P.—When Canadian troops turned over to the Australians "Little Gibraltar," on the Korean western front, the two commanders concerned…
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NEW YORK, Mon. (A.A.P.): India today made public a compromise resolution for ending the Korean war. It proposes that after an armistice all…
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